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This 'catoptric' form of apparatus is still to some extent employed in our lighthouse-service, but for a long time past it has been more and more displaced by the great lenses devised by the illustrious Frenchman, Fresnel.

The eleven guardsmen who lined the seat astern, fading like so many ghosts into its pointille upholstery, owed their near invisibility to the catoptric armor of my own Praetorians; and I soon realized they were my own Praetorians in fact, their armor, and what was more important, their traditions having been handed down from this unimaginably early day to my own.

Eisenoplasy, or esenoplastic power, is contradistinguished from fantasy, either catoptric or metoptric -- repeating simply, or by transposition -- and, again, involuntary [fantasy] as in dreams, or by an act of the will.

"But to return to the catastrophe of the Socratics:" By the time that the philosophical experiments in 'diving without hydraulics' had cleaned me entirely out, it was suggested that any thing in the shape of a loan would be desirable; they were not nice -- not they; a pair of globes; a set of catoptric instruments; an electrical apparatus; a few antique busts; or a collection of books for the library; -- any old rum, as

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This catoptric theater was contrived to take away your identity and make you feel unsure not only of yourself but also of the very objects standing between you and the mirrors.--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 13